Part I: GETTING STARTED WITH PEACHTREE.
- 1. An Interactive Tour of Peachtree.
- 2. Preparing a Balance Sheet Using Peachtree.
- 3. Preparing an Income Statement and Statement of Retained Earnings Using Peachtree.
- 4. Preparing a Statement of Cash Flows Using Peachtree.
- 5. Creating Supporting Reports to Help Make Business Decisions.
Part II: CREATING A PEACHTREE FILE TO RECORD AND ANALYZE BUSINESS EVENTS.
- 6. Setting up Your Business's Accounting System.
- 7. Cash-Oriented Business Activities.
- 8. Additional Business Activities.
- 9. Adjusting Entries and Bank Reconciliations.
- 10. Budgeting.
- 11. Reporting Business Activities.
Appendix 1: Payroll Taxes.
Index.
Using Peachtree Complete 2012 for Accounting 6th Edition reinforces basic accounting concepts in an interactive case setting while developing students' proficiency with Peachtree Complete 2012 software by Sage. This well-organized and concise text provides a self-paced, step-by-step environment in which students use Peachtree Complete 2012 to create financial statements and other reports to reinforce accounting concepts and to see how computer software can be used to make business decisions.
Key Features
- Grading Rubrics: These help instructors grade cases in the end-of-chapter material and link each case requirement and event to a specific student learning outcome. These rubrics are available on the instructor companion web site.
- This text has been fully updated for use with Peachtree Complete 2012 software. Each new text comes packaged with a CD containing an academic version of Peachtree Complete 2012 software and a separate CD with student data files. This gives students hands-on experience as they complete problems and cases throughout the text.
- Video Demonstrations, created by author Glenn Owen and posted at the companion website, walk students through the software in an easy-to-follow manner.
- Chapters 6 - 11 have an exercise about Boston Catering. Each part of the case is independent of the others allowing instructors the flexibility to assign a whole case or focus on separate concepts.
- An engaging narrative style throughout the text clearly conveys the importance of accounting topics and software in today's business world. Students see how and why systems operate with multiple applications.
- A step-by-step building block approach breaks instruction into manageable segments as the book walks students through what they need to do next to master the accounting and Peachtree skills.
- Throughout the text, an emphasis on service and merchandising businesses is highlighted with margin icons that clearly guide students and instructors to service or merchandising applications within the text's comprehensive coverage.
New to this edition
- Two additional comprehensive problems in Chapters 7 and 11: Bridgette Sweet Photography and Crystal Clear Pools are service-related companies for which the student creates a new Peachtree file and adds business events to produce financial statements and reports. These also present excellent assessment opportunities.
- Demonstration Videos: These videos help students visualize Peachtree processes. These demonstrations are referenced by a demonstration video icon in the margin. These demonstrations are stand-alone, full-action videos with audio showing step-by-step illustrations of business processes explained in this text. The demonstrations are available on the companion Web site.
About the Author
- Glenn Owen is a tenured member of Allan Hancock College's Accounting and Business faculty, where he has lectured on accounting and information systems since 1995. In addition, he is a lecturer at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he has been teaching accounting and information systems courses since 1980. He also has been a lecturer at the Orfala College of Business at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, teaching financial and managerial accounting courses. His professional experience includes spending five years at Deloitte & Touché, as well as holding the position of vice president of finance at Westpac Resources, Inc., and Expertelligence, Inc. He has authored many Internet-related books and accounting course supplements and is currently developing online accounting instruction modules for his Internet-based financial accounting courses. Mr. Owen recently released: Using Peachtree Complete 2012 For Accounting, Using Quickbooks Pro 2012 For Accounting and a new edition of Using Excel And Access For Accounting 2010 text, which gives accounting students specific self-paced instruction on the use of spreadsheets and database applications in accounting. His innovative teaching style emphasizes the decision maker's perspective and encourages students to think creatively. His graduate studies in educational psychology and his 35 years of business experience yield a balanced blend of theory and practice.
Book Details
- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: South-Western College Pub; 6 edition (2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1133627285
- ISBN-13: 978-1133627289
- Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
List Price: $146.95